[PLUG] Evi Nemeth Re: Brainfart ... PLUG cookbooks
Michael Ewan
michaelewan15 at gmail.com
Sat May 14 00:22:14 UTC 2022
>In 2001, Dr. Nemeth retired to her sailboat and sailed the
>world - a long long way from her CU-Boulder professorship.
>In June 2013, she and the crew of the vintage yacht Niña
>were lost in a huge storm in the Tasman Sea between New
>Zealand and Australia. Sigh.
I knew Evi personally, we worked together on a couple projects at the
Usenix Association. She was a great educator and a friendly caring person.
We were all devastated when we got the news of lost at sea.
P.S. Of course I used her book in the college courses I taught.
On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 2:23 PM Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 01:38:32PM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> > I have /many/ verbose and vaguely-useful computer books on
>
> I pondered that. The fat books that transitioned me (*) from
> Windoze to BSDI, then BSDI to Redhat Linux, were Evi Nemeth's
> "Unix System Administration Handbook", editions 1 and 3.
>
> There is a 5th and probably final 2018 edition - I just
> ordered a used copy, to torment those who dispose of my
> books after I die. I wondered, what became of Evi Nemeth?
>
> In 2001, Dr. Nemeth retired to her sailboat and sailed the
> world - a long long way from her CU-Boulder professorship.
> In June 2013, she and the crew of the vintage yacht Niña
> were lost in a huge storm in the Tasman Sea between New
> Zealand and Australia. Sigh.
>
> Keith
>
> (*) Now I transition to Ubuntu from Redhat, another great
> community monetized to ruin by "the suits". Ubuntu is
> Debian in a tight skirt with red lipstick. When some bastard
> figures out how to monetize and ruin Debian, I'm doomed.
>
> --
> Keith Lofstrom keithl at keithl.com
>
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